Next.js App Router vs RequireJS

Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.

Top sites by authority

Next.js App Router · RequireJS · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers

Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.

By country

Next.js App Router · RequireJS · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 82,870

158,248

India 63,483

35,970

United Kingdom 33,900

46,226

Germany 32,088

42,885

Brazil 35,914

29,342

Canada 26,650

34,211

France 28,849

31,966

Indonesia 28,746

17,664

Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.

Real user performance

Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Jun 2026. Lower is better; green meets Google's "good" threshold. This describes the sites that use each technology, not the technology's own overhead.

Sites that switched

Domains that dropped one technology and adopted the other within about a year, data nobody else gives away free.

All Next.js App Router sites · All RequireJS sites